Follow-up: we had a fantastic kickoff meeting yesterday, with about 12 people in attendance! The Rust community never ceases to amaze.
The main take-away from the kickoff meeting is that the most important priority is refactoring std to make writing and maintaining ports to new platforms easier. In particular, because std today intertwines platform-specific code throughout, keeping an out-of-tree port up to date requires very painful rebasing. We found that most of the goals we were interested in (including having a “pluggable” std) are ultimately blocked on factoring out a cleaner “platform abstraction layer”.
@jethrogb has agreed to lead a new Portability Working Group! He will be working to organize the group over the coming weeks, and I imagine will have more to say about this soon.
I’m excited to treat portability as a first-class concern in Rust, and to start making these long-term investments in taking Rust to a wider variety of targets! Thanks y’all.